Patriots Citizens Fund and thinner soup back weve endorsed donald trump for president. As far as we find it we are funded by mostly its small donors but we also have a few larger donors now. When we were exclusively funded by small donors. We are 15 years old. We just begin the beginning of our 15th year at the end of february and on tax day will be the 15th anniversary of the Tax Day Tea Party which at 2009. Host why did you start the organization . Guest so back in 2009 we had the stimulus bill passing which was, in january at the end of january and february of 2009 but that was on top of the tarp and the big bailouts and the fannie mae and freddie mac bailouts that happened in 2008. If you recall during the president ial election in 2008 john mccain suspended his campaign to go vote the exact same way that then senator obama did on the parksville and people were very frustrated by that. Where i lived i actually at the time was the Campaign Chairman for mccain palin in my area and people would take their bumper stickers and cut mccain off and just put palin on their car. The stimulus bill started moving to after obama became president obama, and on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange a rant on rant he said our Founding Fathers would be turning over t in the great semineeded to have Tea Party Like our Founding Fathers did. It was about the outofcontrol spending. And we decided we heard that that rant and we decided were going to have a Tea Party Like our Founding Fathers did. So Michael Patrick leahyso who now has the tennessee star on the Star News Network organize a Conference Call through twitter picky organize a Conference Call a about 24 of us or so were on the first Conference Call on februa 20, 2009. And a week later we had the first round of tea party. We had 48 tea parties with 35,000 people in attendance here to six weeks later on tax day we had over 850 Tax Day Tea Party with more than 1 millionendance across the country. Host lets talk about the election. Todays super tuesday. I know your organization has endorsed donald trump. Do you want nikki haley to drop out of thee race at this point . Guest i think nicu should drop out of the race. It is clear that trump is going to be the nominee and its is time for us to focus on the differences between what trump thinks of the solutions of the country faces versus what biden thinks are the solutions to the problems the country faces and to go ahead and begin havin debate which will be having throughout the year as we head into the general election. And its on for us to focus on the. Host what you do not like about nikki haley these platform . Guest it was much less about what it did not like about nikki haley thesela a much more about what our supporters like about what President Trump proved that he is capable of doing while he was president. We had an amazing economy. The standard of living was better for everyone across the country. We were an energy exporter. We were not dependent on foreign energy. And the border was secure and crying was under control across the country. And that is not what is happening right, right now. And what we face in most elections what you normally face in our lifetimes what we normally face is either to people who have president running for office or we face and incumbent president running against someone whos never been president. So you kind of have a proven trackre record versus in theory what the other person can do. Was we are actually deb fischer is the two people who have been president. Its not theoretical. We know what america looked like well trump was president. W we know what we are experiencing as biden is president. And our organization we endorse based on what our supporters want which is a grassroots endorsement, and he wanted trump at the know what he is able to deliver and they want those kind of results again for america. Host if if you like to join a conversation as question, make, for guest you can call us on our lives by Party Democrats 2027488000. Republicans 2027488001. Independence 2027488002. The hill. Com has the article of your organization endorsing with headline conservative Grassroots Group endorses trump. You are quoted in that article saying this, our grassroots understanding of the american experiment is at risk, and that the man most able to save it is donald trump. Can you elaborate on why you believe that the american experiment is at risk . Guest well i think when you look at whats happening with the open border, we look at whats happening with a government that sensors so many people when we look at how weve had a twotiered system of government by one set of rules seems to apply to trump and his supporters different set of rules applies to bidenpp and his supporterspo theres just a lot at risk. Then you add onto that the National Debt. And there is just so much at stake right now for america. I think that when you talk to people across the entire country, they feel like america is on the wrong track. The real clear politics average for right trackwrong track has it at 23. 6 . It is almost 24 to 66. 7 were 66. 8 , 24 for the country is on the right track 67 think the country is on the wrong track. Think the countries on the wrong not working with the country and we have to get it right because if we dont th the country is at stake. That means he a American Experience is. You mentioned one of the priorities is a debtfree future. He haley went out and has many times, or President Trump out ofru 8 trillion to the National Debt. He did add to the National Debt some of that was covid spending. I think it was the first nation to call for the country to reopen and or schools to reopen and helping organize doctors trying to reduce fear and help you appears paralyzing the country because of covid. Its something through president reagan as an adult a teenager when he was president so i never understood when economy really gross but when the economy grows its much bigger so even if you get the same percentage its a bigger price. The economy has grown so much hope you have government funding and in both armies the desire to spend a lot of money you got to have an economy big enough it and paid on the debt and address the problem so we can address it by reducing spending which is what our organization to booking calls for. The other way is to grow the economy. We just have to make sure we have to balance the budget again again. I understand when i say that that is out of control, another spending bill passed into law and i know its not the right thing for the country. This growing revenue. You have increased economy. More money even if they paid a slightly smaller percentage off taxes they pay more taxes because theyy have increased their own wealth. Russell is up first online for democrat south carolina. Biden actually is agents increase the amount of. You stated its not doing well. Not only is there more debt but economy is an all time high and amazing how they paint in america downtrodden. I met this that and republicans lead american when it comes to climate. Inherited from obamas by the onomy is great. Its amazing support someone who has Sexual Assault almost destroyed america and someone inviting victor next week so conference who is a dictator destroys his court and government. One of the big things we are concerned about is the border, its wide open, it is create a situation where there is more crime in the country and harming americans. We can take a look at chicagos certainly not a conservative area of the country yet voters in chicago understand Government Services are impacted in the quality of education negatively impactedei and told kids to go back to being online not asap and again did they use the School Building to accommodate the people here illegally so thats one of the big things we are focused on. You mentioned several different people have the ability to go and get a job if they want and they were able to go negotiate a better salary or another job so it worked well for americans across the country country. The economy grew and flourished y under trump until the world stopped with covid. One of the other things you said those things were working of the biden economy. I hear democrats that yet americans are dealing economically in their own personal situation and have to look at if its better. And they think america is on the wrong track. Good morning. My comment is really toward the issue isnt it true my fellow republicans to recognize the money on the table by this administration regarding the ira stimulating the economy were we have historic low unemployment and back and look at the 20 First Century or trillion surplus and it turned into a chilling dollar deficit and obama came in with two wars crossing economy and had to move to printing money. That and added 16 trillion to the deficit, trump piled on another a trillion dollars to that and then biden in four years has brought it to a total of 34 trillion deficit. I point out at the end of last century we had a surplus. So i know it is the tea partymy is can we recognize that right now, the stimulus is beingvided, 2. 5 trillion is actually putting the majority of the country back to work. I think we have historic lows of about 2. 3 unemployment. Thank you. Guest the problem right with the stimulus is it is causing inflation. So the cost of everything that we purchased is more now than it should be. That goes for whether we are buying groceries, something that costs the same amount as the amount that youre getting the package as a smaller package. You can look at the price of cars, you can look at home prices rightd also the Interest Rate with home prices. The economy is sluggish, people feel like now and they want to have a change in that. I think that is one of the big problems with printing so much money. You are right that at the turnofthecentury, while Newt Gingrich was speaker and clinton was president , we got to a balanced budget, we had a surplus and we have completely blown through that. The debt is completely out of control and that is the fault of both republicans and democrats. Host lets go to george on the independent line. Caller border. Trump congress with the border bill . Two, the immunity decision. And then three, inflation in my view is not beingby the administration it is being caused by corporations who are price gouging americans. At one point they were saying supply and demand was backed up covid that has long since been over. They havent brought their prices down. Thank you. Guest hello fellow georgian, thanks for calling in. As far as what you call price g, it is inflation. Prices have gone up. I think that covid still plays into it. There were places across the country, for instance, hotels that were completely empty for months and i notice when i am booking hotels i have to travel a lot for work, the cost of hotels right now is just out of control. It is so expensive. And i think part of that is because they are trying to go back and make up for lost revenue from the time the world shut down and they didc have at all coming and or very little revenue coming in. I still traveled when covid was happening and sometimes i would be one of the only customers in the entire hotel and the cost of the room for nice hotels was very, very low. Now it is way higher and i think some of that is because his nieces right now are trying to make sure that they level out and get leveled back out. And also when you print money and there is more money in the supply and more money is going around supply and demand makes it where prices wind up going up, and that is one of the laws of economics. You asked about immunity with the Supreme Court. Im not an attorney, it will be very interesting to see what happens with that case. What i do know is that president s have to be able to act to know that they are able to act as president s and make decisions as president s without fear of being sued when they get out of office or fear of being arrested when they get out of office. We are very close in this now to being at a point where president s are afraid to make any kind of decision because they are going to be afraid that postpresidency they could be sued arrested, the next administration could target them, there could be a twotiered system of government. Er had that before now in america. It is a very dangerous precedent that we are setting, that the Biden Administration is setting and it will be very harmful if it continues for future president s. Just think about a future president whether it is a republican or democrat, liberal or conservative, it is not good no matter who that president is the kind of things that are happening right now to happen to a future president who is acting in his capacity as president. I forgot the first thing. 0 host they were talking about the bipartisan border bill that was killed in the senate. Guest descendant did not actual border, and it wouldve codified a lot of the things that are happening in the water right now that are part of the problem. Hr2 from the house would have solve problems but senator schumer has not brought hr2 up for a n the floor in the senate. Whether we passed a new law or not, President Biden has the ability right now to secure the border. He inherited a secure border and through executive action he changed several things that he could change back through executive action. Reinstating title 42, not tearing down the wall. Reinstating remain in mexico and also ending catch and release so if somebody comes into the country claiming asylum, rather than releasing them further into the country you could keep them and detain them which is what should be happening. I am in cherokee county, georgia. Lake and rileys funeral who is here in cherokee county, she different high school and my children and i dont know her, i dont know her family, i did not know but she is a year older than my twins, she went to the same Elementary School as my twins and have the same first grade teacher as my twinr death was a vicious, vicious horrific murder committed allegedly by a man who entered the country illegally and also committed other crimes while he was in this country. He never should have been in the coun unfortunately, her family now is what is known as an angel family. These are families who are impact by the death of a loved one due to crime from Illegal Immigrants and every single one of those deaths at least in the manner in which they died it cant be that every person who died would still be alive, but what i can say is the manner in which they died, encountering death from a person who never should have an in this country if our laws have been upheld was a preventable death. And our government is failing all of those families and failing americans by not securing the border. Host 42, which was the Public Health provision for covid. Do you believe that president ump can reinstate that, given that covid guest you are right, because covid is over, he cannot reinstate that, but they could look at other mechanisms that they use through that to see if there is anything else that could be done. Once title 42 ended, along with changing catch and release ending remain in mexico and cutting holes in the wall, the surge was already bad and it skyrocketed after that. Host got it. Larry, new jersey, line for democrats. Caller good morning. Whom do you believe legitimately won the last president ial thanks for the question. But im 2020 what i believe in 2020 is there were irregularities at the very least. Caller yes or no . Guest im going to answer the question. There were irregularities in the election that cast doubt on the election. That is a hugestate of georgia. If irregularities cast doubt on the election and it has other provisions as well caller so no. Guest but even with irregularity, if there are enough irregularities that cast doubt it is enough to overturn the election. There were enough irregularities and other problems in the swing states in question that according to the laws in those states that had the evidence ever been adjudicated in a court of law, which it was not i think that we would have a better answer to that question. What i can tell you is that biden wasand biden is the president of the United States of america. Host you said the irregularities were not adjudicated in court . Guest the evidence was never adjudicated. In georgia, President Trumps case related to thee hearing for the court date was set for friday, january 5. On january 4, he wound up withdrawing the case im sorry, the fourth with the election i guess it was the eighth, january the eighth. It was friday after congress voted on wednesday. And then we had an election the day before that in georgia. So on january 4 on monday, the judge set the date of the case for friday, january 8. Then congress voted on january 6 and once that happened they did ectors back to georgia for any other reconsiderations, trump went through withdrew his case. So thatver was adjudicated in georgia. The evidence was never adjudicated. Host james in mt. Juliet tennessee. Republican, good morning. Caller i have a question. Hello host, i forgot your name. But my question is do you think that now after the events of january 6, covid people are beginning to see trump in a much different light than they saw him up against the conventional establishment of hillary clinton, which you can even say is much different than the establishment of joe biden . Guest i think that people are seeing trump differently for several Different Reasons first the more that the lawsuits and the indictment happen against trump, th